# The Great SDMB Snowball Fight! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 24, 2002, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-snowball-fight/144630 "2002-12-24T00:12:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-snowball-fight/144630/21 "2002-12-24T04:16:52Z")
Snow here? Maybe up on the mountains! _gets promptly decked with one of **Lady Ice** ’s snowballs right in the kisser_ (very apropos screen name for the thread, too) F\_X ---
**Author:** ![TVGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@TVGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-snowball-fight/144630/22 "2002-12-24T04:35:10Z")
**TVGuy** , bored with TV News broadcasting and sick of Christmas, decides to put his engineering skills to some better use. He builds a high-volume, pneumatically operated snowball gattling gun, uses a front end loader to put the first pile of snow in and targets: \*\*Flamsterette\_X Shoshana Jukeball LolaCocaCola Scott Evil Wang-Ka Airman Doors, USAF Billdo yojimbo His4Ever kambuckta Shalmanese Eutychus SmileyDeath a35362 AlbertRose Matt\_mcl Knighted Vorpal Sword Monty carnivorousplant Mjollnir Francesca Jonathan Chance jarbabyj JThunder Stinkpalm tiggeril Jake StephenG Jeff Olsen Captain Blunty … \*\* Ahhhhhhhh, I feel **MUCH** better now!! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-snowball-fight/144630/23 "2002-12-24T05:39:48Z")
Well, there’s not a lot of snow around here in Oz at the moment, but seeing as I was defrosting my freezer, I got some huge clumps of ice that are just prime material for piffing at: **TGuy** but only 'cos he got me first. **His4Ever** because she needs to chill out a bit. **IceWolf** …well, she was just asking for it wasn’t she, given her name and all? Anyway, she needs some of that sensibility knocked out of her… **Magic8Ball** needs a good soaking, and before I get flamed by her rellies (😃 ), I’ll toss a ball filled with Christmas Cheer and Brandy Snaps to Ginger and Dave…see…no ice here dudes…😃 All the ‘JimJJimmJimbos’ from Dublin are prime targets for my ice-missiles…just because they’re Dubliners…bwahahhaha And the one I MOST want to send a wet missile to is **FeistyMongol** because he needs to seriously lighten up…maybe a good snowball might knock some humour into him…which he so desperately needs! ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-snowball-fight/144630/24 "2002-12-24T05:55:14Z")
And, just like that, **kambuckta** nominates herself for the title of “This Hour’s Victim”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-snowball-fight/144630/25 "2002-12-24T06:01:18Z")
Hey, spare a thought for us poor Melburnites will ya Icey? It’s barely managed to crack 20 degrees here today, so being ‘he’ for the ice-chuck is SO not fair…😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-snowball-fight/144630/26 "2002-12-24T06:19:16Z")
_I_ think it’s perfectly fair, mate. Remember – I’m the one with all th’ sensibility, _right_? Heh, heh, heh … SPLOTT!! And just for you, I’ll see if th’ next one can be formed up in th’ shape of a koala … 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-snowball-fight/144630/27 "2002-12-24T07:14:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ice Wolf \* > \*\* > SPLOTT!! > > \*\* Orright…gloves off time then is it **Icey**? I’m just gonna wait for the right time to thwack you back…but it will be when you least expect it…😃 (Mainly 'cos I’m still trying to dry off from your last hydrassault). ---
**Author:** ![Treviathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-snowball-fight/144630/28 "2002-12-24T07:24:01Z")
**Treviathan** , feeling unwanted after not seeing himself on **TVGuy’s** list of honoured victims, sneaks up behind him and dumps a pile of fresh snow down the back of his parka. And then runs for his life. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-snowball-fight/144630/29 "2002-12-24T07:27:44Z")
I haven’t seen snow in Southern California since we came out here from Indiana in 1952, but I’ll try my best. 🙂 I’ll just pick some Dopers at random, spoiling for a snow fight. I’ll stand on level ground and fashion a ball the size of a bowling ball and roll it at them, and keep doing so until I run out of snow, energy, targets, or level ground. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-snowball-fight/144630/30 "2002-12-24T07:28:39Z")
“Hydrassault” ! Hee, hee … From my convenient and relatively frost-free pozie here behind th’ fence, **kambuckta** me fellow ANZAC cuz an’ all that – I reckon that all trans-Tasman snow tossin’ aside, th’ _real_ target shoukd be … **TVGuy** , don’tcha think? He’s just askin’ for something … _inventively chilly_, eh? ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-snowball-fight/144630/31 "2002-12-24T07:31:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Treviathan \* > \*\ ***Treviathan** , feeling unwanted after not seeing himself on **TVGuy’s** list of honoured victims, sneaks up behind him and dumps a pile of fresh snow down the back of his parka. > > And then runs for his life. \*\* Uh, oh…you’re dead meat now **Trev** …beware the wrath of the TVGuy… (kambuckta pulls up a Christmas deckchair to watch the dousing…bwahahahahahaaaaaa) ---
**Author:** ![DarkJudicator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@DarkJudicator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkJudicator)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-snowball-fight/144630/32 "2002-12-24T07:33:29Z")
… it’s a [pointless](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2287764#post2287764) [roleplaying](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1774880#post1774880) [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1722872#post1722872) in [MPSIMS](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1702526#post1702526) (like my [very first post ever](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1112676#post1112676) ). -= Rugged up in the big orange parka, Kenny McCormack style, **DarkJudicator** stumbles uncertainly across this funny-lookin’ cold white stuff he’s seen on TV until he reaches **Lady Ice** ’s stall, where he then haggles her down to $3 for whipped cream AND schnapps 😃 =- **Cougs** , why do we run into each other in these kinda threads? 😛 Careful with that hose, shrinkage is bad, mm’kay? -= Tentatively scooping up a handful of snow, **DJ** drops a touch into his hot choccy to cool it, then sets off in search of a victim, suitably fortified =- ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-snowball-fight/144630/33 "2002-12-24T08:31:42Z")
_smacks TVGuy upside the head with a slushball_ ---
**Author:** ![Shadez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Shadez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadez)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-snowball-fight/144630/34 "2002-12-24T08:32:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DarkJudicator \* > \*\*-= Rugged up in the big orange parka, Kenny McCormack style, **DarkJudicator** stumbles uncertainly across this funny-lookin’ cold white stuff he’s seen on TV until he reaches **Lady Ice** ’s stall, where he then haggles her down to $3 for whipped cream AND schnapps 😃 =- > \*\* _quickly runs up and steals the whipped cream AND schnapps, cackles gleefully, and shoves a snowcone (blue!) down **DarkJudicator** ’s shirt_ [sub]and then proceeds to slip on ice, spilling the hot stuff all over **DarkJudicator** Whoops!:eek: [/sub] /Shadez [sub]Depression = something like a million water ballons dropped on your head during a blizzard. Hey, don’t laugh, it happened to the pizza guy.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![DarkJudicator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@DarkJudicator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkJudicator)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-snowball-fight/144630/35 "2002-12-24T10:36:19Z")
AAAAIIIIIIEEEEEEE!! Cold on inside, hot on outside! -= runs back towards **Cougarfang** and her hose, getting liberally soaked to prevent scalding and wash off all the alcohol and dairy products … then picks out blue ice from the inside of his now-defaced orange parka, shivering and shaking a fist at the retreating form of **Shadez** =- Damn you **Shadez** , you’ll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes! -= scoops up another couple of handfuls of snow, packs it real tight together and goes hunting his fellow Oceanians =- Heeeeeeeeeeeeere **Wolfy** … heeeeeeeeeere **kambucktaaaaa** … anyone seen **Goo**? _evil grin_ ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-snowball-fight/144630/36 "2002-12-24T10:38:10Z")
**Cartooniverse** stealthily slinks along the slithery subterranean stovepipe, snowball grasped in soggy mitten. Tongue stuck out of corner of mouth, quite akin to this popular image we all know and love: 😛 He appears about twenty feet to the side of **AbbySthrnAccent** and gleefully tosses an armful of softer snow up in the air over her, coating her tresses and shoulders with a mini-blizzard…and then withdraws with lightning speed to contemplate his next snowy moment. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-snowball-fight/144630/37 "2002-12-24T11:10:33Z")
Ah, the perfect opportunity to try out my brand-new riding snow blower with enclosed cab, CD player, foot-warmer, and hot cocoa dispenser. Driving down the street flinging confetti-like snow with wild and reckless abandon, while singing along with the Kingston Trio and sipping double-chocolate cocoa with mini marshmallows. Oh yeah, life is good!! ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-snowball-fight/144630/38 "2002-12-24T12:38:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SpazCat \* > \*\*: turns the hose on everyone in the field : \*\* :Gets hit face first, causing Meatros to slip and fall down again. Due to lack of movement, from being dazed, the water begins to freeze and traps him on the ground: “MMMMfffffffMMMfffmmfmfmfmffff” :With mouth frozen solid, Meatros takes a silent vow of revenge when he gets loose…and after a new pair of pants: ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-snowball-fight/144630/39 "2002-12-24T14:42:43Z")
: darts cheerfully around the icy remains of **Meatros** , then goes looking for her next victim : Oh look, a huge distracting thing! : turns hose on everyone from Australia, just for kicks : ---
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-snowball-fight/144630/40 "2002-12-24T14:57:20Z")
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